To Kill is to Love

5

Reviewed Kill Bill Vol 2

Jul 12, 2004 2205

Where Kill Bill: Volume 1 ended with a dizzying bang, a clandestine revelation and an uncertain future, Quentin Tarantino?s Kill Bill: Volume 2 finalizes on aRead more...

The Reinvention of Chopsloitation

5

Reviewed Kill Bill

Nov 17, 2003 1826

As quintessentially Tarantino as Quentin Tarantino can get, Kill Bill Vol.1 is also the film the most dissimilar to the manic director’s past work (the geRead more...

Sloppy Thirds

2

Reviewed Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Nov 17, 2003 2026

With only its wonderfully caricatural final act and denouement as its principle virtues, one wonders if Robert Rodriguez is channeling only Sergio Leone’Read more...

The Little Engine that Couldn't

2

Reviewed Seabiscuit

Aug 16, 2003 2557

Nearing its first act’s end, at long last, with the inevitable congregation of its main character trio (after an elongated intro mired by two marriages, aRead more...

The shivering of timbers

4

Reviewed Pirates of the Caribbean

Aug 15, 2003 1883

Eloquently verbose, chillingly extraordinary and distinctly more authentic in eliciting that innate pirate spirit than any contemporary swashbuckling picture Read more...

Psychology and Smashing Things 101

1

Reviewed The Hulk

Aug 15, 2003 2546

One of the more or less highly anticipated comic book adaptations in recent memory, Ang Lee’s Hulk is also one of the more visibly deceitful and accordingRead more...

God has an anomalous sense of humor

1

Reviewed Bruce Almighty

Aug 15, 2003 3020

Manning its moral lighthouses with a creepy homeless man, mannequin-esque and complete with doomsday signs in hand (who later turns out to be something else, Read more...

Uninspired flamboyance as insouciant blah

3

Reviewed The Recruit

Aug 15, 2003 2330

Roger Donaldson’s The Recruit is a voluptuous Venus Flytrap of an espionage caper, complete with a monochromatic and appealing exterior of deceptive attraRead more...

The (unofficial) fourth in Wes Anderson's oeuvre

3

Reviewed Igby Goes Down

Apr 25, 2003 1646

Burr ’’Flock of Seagulls’’ Steers’ Igby Goes Down is a quirky, ambitious and corybantic little thing to behold, retooling the Wes AnRead more...

The fall of an empire. The descent of man.

5

Reviewed 25th Hour

Apr 25, 2003 2369

Opening with something along the lines of a Tarantino gimmick and concluding with something of a Scorsese gimmick, Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, indeed, enthusRead more...

Destruction of the pro-military apologue

1

Reviewed Antwone Fisher

Apr 25, 2003 2086

Narrow and feeble in consideration, construction and execution, Denzel Washington’s debut, Antwone Fisher, is a grand faux pas in the scheme of invokingRead more...

The Falsity About Charlie

5

Reviewed Adaptation

Jan 28, 2003 2509

Obscure by design and endlessly inventive, in a Soderbergh and Coen kind of way, Spike Jonze’s Adaptation is bottomless self-deprecating Charlie KaufmanRead more...

The Travels of Schmidt

5

Reviewed About Schmidt

Jan 28, 2003 2239

The blistering irony and torture of retirement seems (and if not, should be) more dreadfully anticipated with the onslaught of modern technology nowadays; theRead more...

Death shall have no dominion

5

Reviewed Solaris

Jan 08, 2003 2037

Deviant in its distortions of preconceived expectations attributed to science-fiction films Steven Soderbergh’s abstruse Solaris is opaquely intellectual Read more...

The Analytical Descent of a Career

1

Reviewed Analyze That

Jan 08, 2003 1612

With uncouth composure and deliriously soporific pace Harold Ramis’ Analyze That is as unfunny as it is tortuously inert, castrated by a grievous sense foRead more...

Scorsese's American History X

2

Reviewed Gangs Of New York

Jan 07, 2003 2445

Resembling a colossal gaffe of equal parts James Cameron imitating Martin Scorsese, Michael Bay imitating the same, and the Raging Bull himself pulling an impRead more...

The Art of War

5

Reviewed Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Jan 07, 2003 1411

Pummeling the timorous competition and obliterating mountainous ranges of expectation this second installment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings epRead more...

Ian Fleming rolls ever-so-slightly in his grave

3

Reviewed Die Another Day

Jan 07, 2003 2222

Laden with homage to the past nineteen films this XXXed James Bond adventure is hyperbolically grandiose and a chic exercise in the passé spy ritual. TheRead more...

The Mysterious Voyage of Sandler

5

Reviewed Punch-Drunk Love

Nov 22, 2002 1649

A speciously tangible veracity and contradictory recitation, positioned with a quirky cadre of animal magnetism, subtly and antagonism, Punch-Drunk Love is PaRead more...

Harry Potter and the Great Beneath

4

Reviewed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Nov 22, 2002 1838

Essentially saturated with a consummate propensity for the authentically whimsical and an ingeniously conjured universe of contemporary and mythological assimRead more...